Arise your tangles sweet spring

Arise your tangles sweet spring

This piece is inspired by Spring and worked with threads, antique fabrics and embellishemnts, metals and melted plastics.
The title 'arise your tangles sweet spring' depicts the dead  dark tangled lost roots of winter slowly being overtaken by the rising of fresh new colour and growth that comes with spring, new birth, new hope, an excited promise of greater things to follow that come with the the magnificent strength of the full technicolour of summer.

Working with Velvets ~ The Blue Yonder

I love working with velvets and this piece was created for a competition that was all about touching the art. I have worked with my own hand dyed velvets, burned and coloured fabrics, metals and silk waste and cocoons to achieve varying degrees of colour and texture.

See the link below on how this piece came together.

http://twinklepinkpostit.blogspot.com/2007/01/at-last-project-finished.html

Historical Collage Work ~ Mixed Media

Luscious folds - Ribbon Work

Well I have not created this, though wish I had, it is from the 1920's. I felt I had to add it here as incentive to come up with something equally as luscious. Watch this space.

Cake making!

I'm sampling cakes at the moment. But I wouldn't recommend eating anything!

This one above has been inspired from a large cake that I created last year for the Embroiderers Guild.

The guild celebrated 100 years together and I thought it would be a whimsical idea to create a cake made up of layers of techniques. I started on the layers incorporating distressed velvets, degummed cocoons, tye dyed cotton with foiling, burning and dissolving, acetone and acetate, wrapped threads and free-hand machine embroidery.

Water Vase

Inspired from a babbling brook.
Made with silk waste and hand dyed silk using a technique called acetone & acetate, and embellished with beads.

Flower Sac

Inspired from colourful summer gardens using scraps of hand dyed velvets and vintage braid embellished with vintage threads, wools and hand dyed cotton and silk yarns.